COURAG
l>\ Kon W ehet
Aviator Reaches to the Skies
Too often we hear about all the
great men o f history but not the
powerful women who have done so
much to change the landscape o f
our nation’s history.
One of these individuals is a black
woman named Evie Washington
who went on to do what the legend
ary pilot Bessie C olem an only
dreamed o f accomplishing; teach
ing other minority women to fly.
W hile C olem an’s life was cut
short in a tragic accident in the
1920s, she left behind a legacy that
would be followed by W ashington
and other w omen o f color.
As a flight orientation pilot for
the Civil A ir Patrol, W ashington
devoted tim e and m oney to “O p
portunity Skyw ay,’’ an educational
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aviation program for children and jam s, W ashington would only hear
w rote ac h ild ren ’s book on African or see an occasional car stroll by.
H ow ever som ething a lot more ex
A m ericans in aviation.
W ashington was born in 1946 citing than cars visited her on a
and given to her grandparents w ho daily basis. It was the sight and
raised her on a farm they ow ned sound o f huge C-130 and C-141
close to the M ississippi border, airplanes from the nearby military
rem oved from the poverty o f so base.
They aircraft Hew low over the
many other black Am ericans.
She would rise before school to
do the custom ary chores found on
any Southern farm like feeding
chickens, m ilking cow s and clean
ing the stalls. By the tim e she and
her classm ates filed into the class
room, she would have already com
pleted nearly a half a day ’s hard
labor.
A s busy city stre e ts ac ro ss
A m erica were crow ded in traffic
fields on take o ff and landing, as military. D uring the 1960s initia
though to wave at the farm ers b e tives focusing on m inority hiring
low. W ashington w atched those becam e a high priority, especially
planes every time they cam e by, regarding governm ent jo b s or pri
praying one day they she too would vate com panies with governm ent
contracts.
fly like a bird.
But when W ashington applied to
Her grandfather supported her
every effort to becom e a pilot, but the Air Force Academy, she was
it was no, easy. T o break into the abruptly told that the academy was
not accepting women pi
field o f aviation, she
lots.
applied for a jo b as a
K nowing in her heart
flight attendant. U nfor
that
she could fly an air
tunately she would run
plane,
she refused to
into a roadblock regard
give
up.
She earned the
ing her small physical
m
oney
and
paid for fly-
siz e. A t a slig h t 87
in g le s s o n s h e rs e lf,
pounds she would have
eventually passing all
to find another way to
th e te s ts to g et h e r
attain her goal.
pilot’s license.
R efusing to be d e
Evie Washington
Greatly determined.
feated she turned to the
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she went on to break the color barrier
in the academic world as well earning
a bachelors degree in psychology
and a master’s degree in business.
In later years, W ashington re
flected on her drive to pass every
roadblock.
“ You can learn som ething from
the criticism s and discouragem ent
that people offer you, and a, tim es
if you look at in an objective w ay , it
can be a m otivating force for yo u ,”
she said.
During the hardest o f tim es and
all the sacrifices she m ade, som e o f
her fondest m em ories w ere the
w ords o f encouragem ent from her
grandfather w ho told her she could
have anything a m an had if she
worked hard enough for it.
He was right.
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